Property

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what the (a) name, (b) location, (c) floor space, (d) tenure status and (e) value is of properties (i) owned and (ii) occupied by (A) his Department and (B) agencies and public bodies accountable to him.

Jennifer Willott: The following table includes the name, location, floor space and tenure status of buildings occupied by the Department. The Department does not own any of the properties or occupy any on a ground lease. Therefore, there is no property value recorded against the space occupied by the Department.
	I have approached the chief executives of the Department's Executive Agencies (Insolvency Service, Companies House, National Measurement Office, Intellectual Property Office, UK Space Agency, Ordnance Survey, Met Office, Land Registry and the Skills Funding Agency) and they will respond to the hon. Member directly.
	Information for non-departmental public bodies is not held centrally and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
	
		
			 Property Name/Address Tenure Type Floor Space occupied by BIS (m2) 
			 Alexandra House, Leeds, LS16 6QY Leasehold/Licence 575.6 
			 Apex Court, Nottingham, NG2 4LA Leasehold/Licence 460 
			 Queensway House, Billingham, TS23 2NF Leasehold/Licence 691.2 
			 The Business Centre, Cambridge, CB4 9LQ Leasehold/Licence 89.4 
			 Victoria Street 1, London, SW1H OET Leasehold/Licence 30,573 
			 Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NP Leasehold/Licence 166 
			 Victoria Square House, Victoria Sq, Birmingham, B2 4AJ Leasehold/licence 662.6 
			 3 Piccadilly Place, Manchester, M1 3BN MOTO 250 
			 St Paul's Place, Norfolk Street. Sheffield, S1 2FJ MOTO 1,844 
			 Companies House, Maindy, Cardiff, CF14 3UZ MOTO 1,056 
			 Watford Exchange House, Exchange Rd, Watford,WD18 0JJ MOTO 560 
			 Europa House, Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8LG MOTO 448 
			 Victoria House, Southampton Row, WC1B 4AD MOTO 1,056 
			 2 Rivergate, Temple Quay, Bristol, BS1 6EH MOTO 341.50 
			 Arndale House, Arndale Centre. Manchester, M4 3AQ MOTO 1— 
			 Moongate House, Fifth Avenue Business Pk, Gateshead, NE11 OHF MOTO 1— 
			 Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, GU1 4GA MOTO 1— 
			 Mowden Hall, Staindrop Road, Darlington, DL3 9BG 2— 2— 
			 Daresbury Laboratory, Keckwick Lane, Daresbury, Warrington, WA4 4AD Leasehold/licence 1— 
			 Cannon House, 18 Priory Queensway, Birmingham B4 6BS 3— 3— 
			 Larkhill, Wiltshire 4— 4— 
			 Stanley Barracks, Dorset 4— 4— 
			 1 N/A—space occupied on desk basis. 2 Building is owned by another Government Department. No formal agreement in place to occupy space. 3 Building is leased by another Government organisation. No formal agreement in place to occupy space. 4 Informal agreement with MOD. Note: MOTO stands for Memorandum of Terms of Occupation and is a type of licence agreement for the sharing of accommodation between Government organisations known as "Crown Bodies". 
		
	
	Letter from Dr Vanessa Lawrence CB, dated 12 February 2014
	As Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, I have been asked to respond to your Parliamentary Question asking the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, “what the (a) name, (b) location, (c) floor space, (d) tenure status and (e) value is of properties (i) owned and (ii) occupied by (A) his Department and (B) agencies and public bodies accountable to him”.
	The spreadsheet details all the information requested for all premises owned or occupied by Ordnance Survey. This information will be placed in the Libraries of the House of Commons.
	Should you have any further questions, please let me know.
	I hope this information is helpful.
	Letter from David Parker, dated 7 February 2014
	Thank you for your question addressed to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, to ask what the (a) name, (b) location, (c) floor space, (d) tenure status and (e) value is of properties (i) owned and (ii) occupied by (A) his Department and (B) agencies and public bodies accountable to him.
	The UK Space Agency is an Executive Agency of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. It does not (i) own any properties. It (ii) occupies three locations as follows:
	
		
			 A Name Polaris House Electron Building 1 Victoria Street 
			 B Location Swindon Harwell London 
			 C Floor Space 350m2 30m2 30m2 respectively 
			 D Tenure Status Leased from the Research Councils Leased from STFC Informal space given to UK Space Agency from BIS 
			 E Value if none No buildings are owned by the UK Space Agency. For the three office locations space is leased within larger buildings with multiple occupiers. 
		
	
	Letter from John Hirst, dated 12 February 2014
	I am replying on behalf of the Met Office to your Parliamentary Questions tabled on 6 February 2014, UIN 187278 to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
	The Met Office owns and leases a range of properties around the UK to support its weather and climate services. This includes office, workshop and storage accommodation, as well as a number of small unmanned sites which house essential operational observing equipment, such as weather radar and automatic weather stations. A list of these sites has been placed in the Libraries of the House. In addition, a number of Met Office staff are based at a range of MOD sites providing crucial support to military training and operations.
	The value of the properties owned and occupied by the Met Office which are held on balance sheet is £63.8 million.
	I hope this helps.
	Letter from Tim Moss, dated 7 February 2014
	I am replying on behalf of Companies House to your Parliamentary Question tabled 6 February 2014, UIN 187278 to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
	I will answer your questions in order.
	Companies House has four locations, all named Companies House, in Cardiff, London, Edinburgh and Belfast.
	The floor space for each office is as follows:
	
		
			 Office Floor Space 
			 Cardiff 29,000 
			 Edinburgh 725 
			 Belfast 560 
			 London 229 
			 Total 30,514 
		
	
	The tenure status of the Cardiff site is freehold. The locations in London, Edinburgh and Belfast are rented.
	The value of the land and buildings of the freehold site in Cardiff is £17,345,000.
	Companies House Cardiff occupies 22.310 square metres of the site and the remaining 6,690 square metres is rented out.
	Letter from National Measurement office, dated 12 February 2014
	I am responding in respect of the National Measurement Office (NMO), an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), to your Parliamentary Question tabled on 6 February 2014, asking the BIS Secretary of State what the (a) name, (b) location, (c) floor space, (d) tenure status and (e) value is of properties (i) owned and (ii) occupied by (A) his Department and (B) agencies and public bodies accountable to him.
	The Secretary of State owns the properties on the Teddington Estate which comprise the main NPL Building and other older ancillary buildings. The total value of these are £177,702k which is the value stated in NMO's Annual Accounts at 31 March 2013, uplifted for purchases to the end of January 2014. The total area of the buildings are 54,347m sq and are occupied by NMO, NPL Management Ltd (NPLML) and BMT.
	NMO itself occupies a building with a value of £6,621k and an area of 4,709 m sq which is freehold.
	NPLML occupy buildings valued at £167,186k which are freehold with an area of 45,117 m sq, they also occupy buildings valued at £3,570k with an area of 4,521 m sq on leasehold land owned by Crown Estate and Royal Parks. NPLML perform science in support of the National Measurement System in these properties and pay rent to NMO.
	Letter from Ed Lester, dated 10 February 2014
	I write on behalf of Land Registry in response to Parliamentary Question 187278 tabled on 06 February 2014 which asked the following:
	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what the (a) name, (b) location, (c) floor space, (d) tenure status and (e) value is of properties (i) owned and (ii) occupied by (A) his Department and <B) agencies and public bodies accountable to him.
	A table will be placed in the Library of the House.
	I hope that you find this information useful.
	Letter from John Alty, dated 9 January 2014
	I am responding in respect of the Intellectual Property Office to your Parliamentary Question tabled on 10th February 2014, to the Secretary for Business, Innovation and Skills.
	The Intellectual Property Office is an Executive Agency and Trading Fund of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. It operates in three locations, a main office, a small London Office and a warehouse.
	
		
			 Status Owned Occupied (partial) Occupied 
			 Name Concept House 4 Abbey Orchard Street Unit 6 
			 Location Cardiff Road Newport South Wales NP10 8QQ Westminster London SW1P 2HT Nine Mile Point Industrial Estate Cwmfelinfach NP11 7HZ 
			 Floor space 15,788 sqm net internal area (NIA) including 1,803 which is sub let. 768 sqm NIA 2,695 sqm NIA of warehouse space 
			 Tenure Freehold Tenancy agreement with BIS Agreed to extend lease to November 2017 
			 Value £17.85 million on the basis of existing use Not Known Not known 
		
	
	Letter from Dr Richard Judge, dated 13 February 2014
	The Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has asked me to reply to your question, what the (a) name, (b) location, (c) floor space, (d) tenure status and (e) value is of properties (i) owned and (ii) occupied by (A) his Department and (B) agencies and public bodies accountable to him. My response relates to the Insolvency Service, an Executive Agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
	The Insolvency Service does not own any property. The property currently occupied by the Insolvency Service is as follows:
	
		
			 Name Location Tenure Status Floor Space (m2) 
			 Cannon House Level 3 and 4, Cannon House, 18 Priory Queensway, Birmingham B4 6BS Leasehold 3,990 
			 Cobalt Square 83 Hagley Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B16 8QG Leasehold 1,327 
			 Seneca House The Links, Blackpool Business Park, Amy Johnson Way, Blackpool FY4 2RS Leasehold 688 
		
	
	
		
			 Northgate Court Northgate Court, Grnd 1st and 2nd Floor,22-23 London Road, Gloucester, GL1 3HB Leasehold 481 
			 Anchor House Anchor House, 3rd Floor -Suites I , J, K & L The Maltings, Silvester Street, Hull, HU1 3HA Leasehold 877 
			 St Clare House 1st and 8th Floors, St Clare House, Princes Street, Ipswich, IP1 1LX Memorandum of Terms of Occupation with HMRC 522 
			 City Walk 1 City Walk, 3rd Floor, Leeds, LS11 9DA Leasehold 1,059 
			 Wellington House Wellington House, 4th Floor, Wellington Street, Leicester LE1 6HL Leasehold 568 
			 Rosebrae Court 2nd Floor, Rosebrae Court, Woodside Ferry Approach, Birkenhead CH41 6DU Memorandum of Terms of Occupation with the Land Registry 336 
			 London 4 Abbey Orchard Street, London SW1P2HT Memorandum of Terms of Occupation with BIS 2,103 
			 Piccadilly Place 2nd Floor, 3 Piccadilly place, London Road, Manchester, M1 3BN Leasehold 1,853 
			 Melbourne House 1st floor, Melbourne House, Pandon Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2JQ Leasehold 604 
			 Sol House 1st Floor, Sol House, 29 St Katherine's Street, Northampton, NN1 2QZ Leasehold 565 
			 Emmanuel House 2 Convent Road, Norwich, NR2 1PA Leasehold 697 
			 Remote Interview Facility Middlesbrough, TS1 5JA   
			 Remote Interview Facility Conwy Business Centre, Junction Way, Llandudno Junction, LL31 9XX Leasehold 17 
			 Remote Interview Facility 1 Rhyd-Broughton Lane (Tribunal Room 3), Rhyd-Broughton Lane, Wrexham, LL13 7YP Memorandum of Terms of Occupation with Ministry of Justice 30 
		
	
	Property leases were valued at £6,789,193 in our accounts for the year to 31 March 2013.
	Letter from Skills Funding Agency, dated 11 February 2014
	Thank you for your question asking the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills regarding what the (a) name, (b) location, (c) floor space, (d) tenure status and (e) value is of properties (i) owned and (ii) occupied by (A) his Department and (B) agencies and public bodies accountable to him. (187278)
	Please be advised of the following:
	
		
			 Skills Funding Agency occupied properties as at 10 February 2014 
			 Skills Funding agency Office Location Tenure Value Floor Space Area (m2) 
			 Birmingham Victoria Sq Hse—Birmingham MOTO 1— 662 
			 Bristol 2 Rivergate—Bristol MOTO 1— 418 
			 Chatham The Observatory—Chatham MOTO 1— 475 
			 Coventry Cheylesmore House—Coventry Leasehold 1— 10,598 
			 Gateshead Moongate House—Gateshead Leasehold 1— 2,188 
			 1 No value as Leasehold or MOTO. Do not own.

Staff

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of staff of (a) his Department and (b) agencies and public bodies accountable to him work outside of London; and in which local authorities such staff are located.

Jennifer Willott: Approximately 17% of staff in the core Department for Business, Innovation and Skills are located outside of London. Data on this issue is published regularly on the Office for National Statistics website. The most recent publication in October 2013 showed that 72% of civil servants working in the BIS family of organisations were located outside London.
	I have approached the chief executives of the Department's Executive agencies (Insolvency Service, Companies House, National Measurement Office, Intellectual Property Office, UK Space Agency, Ordnance Survey, Met Office, Land Registry and the Skills Funding Agency) and they will respond to the hon. Member directly.
	Letter from Tim Moss, dated 7 February 2014
	I am replying on behalf of Companies House to your Parliamentary Question tabled 6 February 2014. UIN 187259 to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
	The proportion of Companies House staff that work outside London is 99%.
	Letter from Vanessa Lawrence, dated 10 February 2014
	As Director General and Chief Executive of Ordnance Survey, I have been asked to respond to your Parliamentary Question asking the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, "what proportion of staff of (a) his Department and (b) agencies and public bodies accountable to him work outside of London, and in which local authorities such staff are located".
	I can advise that 96% of Ordnance Survey employees work outside of London. In this instance we have defined 'London' by Borough, and excluded the areas holding 'Borough of London' status, for example 'London Borough of Ealing'.
	Following is a breakdown of the local authorities where our employees outside of London are located.
	I hope the information that I have been able to provide is helpful.
	
		
			 Local authority Number of staff 
			 Aberdeen City 1 
			 Aberdeenshire 1 
		
	
	
		
			 Allerdale 1 
			 Angus 2 
			 Aylesbury Vale 1 
			 Basingstoke and Deane 1 
			 Bassetlaw 1 
			 Bedford 2 
			 Birmingham 2 
			 Blaby 2 
			 Blackburn 2 
			 Blackpool 1 
			 Blaenau Gwent 2 
			 Bolton 2 
			 Bradford 2 
			 Bromsgrove 1 
			 Broxtowe 2 
			 Burnley 1 
			 Calderdale 1 
			 Cardiff 1 
			 Central Bedfordshire 2 
			 Chelmsford 4 
			 Cherwell 2 
			 Cheshire East 2 
			 Cheshire West and Chester 3 
			 Chesterfield 1 
			 Chichester 1 
			 Chorley 1 
			 City of Edinburgh 3 
			 City of Kingston upon Hull 3 
			 City of Peterborough 1 
			 City of Plymouth 2 
			 City of Southampton 1 
			 Cornwall 1 
			 Coventry 4 
			 Craven 1 
			 Darlington 1 
			 Derbyshire Dales 2 
			 Doncaster 2 
			 Dudley 2 
			 Dumfries and Galloway 1 
			 Durham 6 
			 East Cambridgeshire 2 
			 East Devon 1 
			 East Hampshire 2 
			 East Lothian 1 
			 East Renfrewshire 4 
			 East Riding of Yorkshire 2 
			 Eastbourne 1 
			 Rotherham 4 
			 Rugby 1 
			 Ryedale 1 
			 Salford 1 
			 Scottish Borders 1 
			 Sefton 1 
			 Selby 1 
			 Sevenoaks 1 
			 Sheffield 2 
			 Shepway 4 
			 Shropshire 3 
			 Solihull 1 
			 South Ayrshire 3 
			 South Derbyshire 1 
			 South Gloucestershire 4 
			 South Hams 1 
			 South Kesteven 1 
		
	
	
		
			 South Lanarkshire 3 
			 South Norfolk 1 
			 South Northamptonshire 1 
			 Southend-on-Sea 1 
			 St Edmundsbury 2 
			 St Helens 3 
			 Stevenage 2 
			 Suffolk Coastal 1 
			 Sunderland 1 
			 Swale 1 
			 Swansea 3 
			 Tandridge 1 
			 Taunton Deane 1 
			 Telford 3 
			 Test Valley 894 
			 The Vale of Glamorgan 1 
			 Tonbridge and Malling 2 
			 Torbay 1 
			 Torfaen 1 
			 Torridge 1 
			 Trafford 1 
			 Walsall 1 
			 Warwick 2 
			 Waverley 1 
			 Wealden 1 
			 West Berkshire 1 
			 West Dorset 1 
			 West Lancashire 2 
			 West Lindsey 2 
			 West Lothian 2 
			 West Oxfordshire 1 
			 Weymouth and Portland 1 
		
	
	Letter from John Alty, dated 9 January 2014
	I am responding in respect of the Intellectual Property Office to your Parliamentary Question tabled on 06th February 2014, to the Secretary for Business, Innovation and Skills.
	A. Out of a total of 1017 staff (as at 01 February 2014), 963 (95%) are based outside London.
	B. The following table shows the distribution breakdown and local authority:
	
		
			 Location Headcount Percentage Local authority 
			 London 54 5 n/a 
			 Newport 952 94 Newport City Council 
			 Cwmfelinfach 11 1 Caerphilly County Borough Council 
			 Total 1,017 100  
		
	
	Letter from Ed Lester, dated 10 February 2014
	I write on behalf of Land Registry in response to Parliamentary Question 187259 tabled on 06 February 2014 which asked the following:
	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of staff of (a) his Department and (b) agencies and public bodies accountable to him work outside of London; and in which local authorities such staff are located.
	If we use the Civil Service classification, our Croydon Office counts as the London region. If you are happy to follow that definition, as at 1 February 2014, 93.8% of our staff work outside of London.
	The chart will be placed in the Library.
	I hope that you find this information useful.
	Letter from the Insolvency Service, dated 10 February 2014
	The Secretary of State for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has asked me to reply to your question, what proportion of staff of (a) his Department and (b) agencies and public bodies accountable to him work outside of London; and in which local authorities such staff are located. My response relates to the Insolvency Service, an Executive Agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
	Seventy nine per cent of staff work outside of London. Staff outside of London work within the local authority areas shown as follows:
	Birmingham City Council
	Blackpool Borough Council
	Brighton & Hove City Council
	Bristol City Council
	Cambridge City Council
	Cardiff City Council
	Edinburgh City Council
	Exeter City Council
	Gloucester City Council
	Kingston-upon-Hull City Council
	Ipswich Borough Council
	Leeds City Council
	Leicester City Council
	Manchester City Council
	Medway Council
	Newcastle-under-Lyme District Council
	Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Council
	Northampton Borough Council
	Norwich City Council
	Nottingham City Council
	Plymouth City Council
	Reading Borough Council
	St. Albans City & District Council
	Sheffield City Council
	Southampton City Council
	Southend-on-Sea Borough Council
	Swansea City Council
	Watford Borough Council
	Wirral Council
	Letter from Skills Funding Agency, dated 10 February 2014
	Thank you for your question asking the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of staff of (a) his Department and (b) agencies and public bodies accountable to him work outside of London; and in which local authorities such staff are located. (187259)
	Please be advised that the proportion of Skills Funding Agency staff that work outside of London by local office and local authority area is shown as follows:
	
		
			 Location Local authority Total staff Percentage of total staff 
			 SFA Birmingham Birmingham 82 6.33 
			 SFA Bristol Bristol 38 2.93 
			 SFA Chatham Medway 26 2.01 
			 SFA Coventry Coventry 453 34.95 
			 SFA Fareham Fareham 44 3.40 
			 SFA Gateshead Gateshead 75 5.79 
			 SFA Histon Cambridgeshire 52 4.01 
			 SFA Leeds Leeds 84 6.48 
		
	
	
		
			 SFA Leicester Leicester 1 0.08 
			 SFA Liverpool Liverpool 39 3.01 
			 SFA Manchester Manchester 82 6.33 
			 SFA Nottingham Nottingham 50 3.86 
			 SFA Plymouth Plymouth 29 2.24 
			 SFA Reading Reading 45 3.47 
			 SFA Sheffield Sheffield 16 1.23 
		
	
	Letter from David Parker, dated 7 February 2014
	Thank you for your question addressed to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, to ask what proportion of staff of (a) his Department and (b) agencies and public bodies accountable to him work outside of London; and in which local authorities such staff are located.
	The UK Space Agency is an Executive Agency of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and 81% of its staff work outside of London: located in Swindon, Oxfordshire and Bedfordshire local authorities.
	Letter from Met Office, dated 12 February 2014
	I am replying on behalf of the Met Office to your Parliamentary Questions tabled on 6 February 2014, UIN 187259 to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills.
	The proportion of Met Office staff working outside of Greater London is 96.8 per cent, located in the following local authority areas:
	
		
			 Local authority Proportion of Met Office staff (percentage) 
			 Aberdeen City 2.3 
			 Antrim 0.5 
			 Bedford 0.5 
			 Birmingham 0.1 
			 Cardiff 0.3 
			 Cambridgeshire County 0.1 
			 Central Bedfordshire 0.4 
			 Ceredigion 0.4 
			 City of Edinburgh 1.4 
			 Cornwall 0.3 
			 Devon County 76.0 
			 Dumfries and Galloway 0.1 
			 Fife 0.6 
			 Glasgow City 0.2 
			 Hampshire County 1.0 
			 Hertfordshire County 0.4 
			 Isle of Anglesey 0.3 
			 Lancashire County 0.2 
			 Leeds 0.1 
		
	
	Letter from Sarah Glasspool, dated 10 February 2014
	I am responding in respect of the National Measurement Office (NMO), an executive agency of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), to your Parliamentary Question tabled on 6 February 2014, asking the BIS Secretary of State what proportion of staff of (a) his Department and (b) agencies and public bodies accountable to him work outside of London; and in which local authorities such staff are located.
	The NMO is located in a single office based in Teddington and, as at 31 January 2014, employs 79 staff. The local authority which covers NMO's location is the London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames.